18 Easy Cardboard Halloween Costume Ideas [Recycled]

Designing Halloween costumes is a great family project. Be sure to let everyone have some creative freedom in designing their own easy cardboard Halloween costume ideas.

Are you looking for fun, easy homemade Halloween costume ideas for inexpensive Halloween costumes? These easy cardboard Halloween costume ideas might help you find the answer to your quest.

The easy cardboard Halloween costumes are made from discarded boxes easily found in your community. Be sure you plan your search for cardboard boxes before it rains!

This is a great family project that is great for the environment, too! All you need to do is combine cardboard, some inexpensive trimmings, and imagination for the makings of great homemade Halloween costumes, such as a cheese sandwich, popcorn box, Hershey candy bar, tooth, restaurant table, and more…

Have you made one or more Halloween costumes using cardboard? Submit your cardboard Halloween costume ideas in the comment box below or a link to where it can be found…

Cheese Sandwich

A Yummy – Cardboard Halloween Costume

Take two pieces of white cardboard and cut them to look like Sandwich bread–paint or color about 1-inch along the edges brown for the crust.

Pick other colors of poster board to be the Sandwich contents — one color of yellow for the cheese, another for the mustard. One color of green for pickles, another for the lettuce (cut jagged edges for more leafy look).

Glue or tape a couple pieces of the contents to the inside of each piece of “bread” and use rope or wide ribbon as shoulder straps to attach the two parts together.

Wear red sweats for ketchup (or yellow sweats for mustard and use a red piece of poster board for ketchup).

Get Boxed In – Cardboard Halloween Costume

Mirror

Who’s the Fairest of Them All – Cardboard Halloween Costume

Wear all white.

Get some face paint and make your OWN face as UGLY as ever. Do not try and look good today.

Get an old picture frame, or something big enough to fit around your head. Make it look like a picture frame and strap it on to your shirt in anyway possible using tape or glue, and make sure it balances on your shoulders.

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4 Comments

It’S true. Making a Halloween costume is great fun. We have always made our own because my parents made us. I am glad they made us now because my children get to have the same great experience. Thank you for sharing your ideas.

nana 2009/09/28 at 8:19 am

A Facebook friend shared this easy homemade Halloween costume idea with me: “Sounds like my kind of costumes. We once made Medieval Knight’s headgear from Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets covered in Aluminum Foil.” What a great idea! Recycle, recycle, recyle!